Hi
One thing that will help is to replace the male hose tail from your pole.
Quite often this part gets compromised due to hitting the floor and affects the seal it makes on your tap.
My advice to you is to make a 5-8 inch extension and plug that into your tap, put some tape around where it connects to your tap so you can’t disconnect it by mistake. Then always connect your pole hose to the end of your extension pipe, gravity will make this hang down away from you and you shouldn’t get wet.
Hope that helps (i might have missundersood your problem)